Railway-crossing



(No Model.)

J. F. GROWELL & F. O. WEIR.

RAILWAY CROSSING. No. 378,827. Patented Feb. 28, 1888.

N' PETERS. Plmln-Lillmgrapher. Washington. 0. c.

IINTTE STATES PATENT Tries.

J. FOSTER OROWVELL AND FREDRIO O. WEIR, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

RAlLWAY CROSSING..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 378,827, dated February28, 1888.

Application filed December 9, 1887. Serial No. 257,444. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, J. FOsTER CROWELL and FREDRIO GWEIR, residents ofCincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Crossings, of which thefollowing is a specification.

Our invention is peculiarly adapted for street-car crossings, and isillustrated as applied to a street-car railway crossing the ordinaryT-rail.

The object of our invention is, first, to prothe crossing with the headsof the rails removed. Fig. 3 is a section on line x m, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 isa section on line 3/ 51 Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a detail View of thesupplemental inclined rail. Fig. 6 is a modification showing the methodof connecting the ordinary fiat tramrail to the guard and abuttingrails.

A A represent the ordinary T-rail, which is laid upon ties and spiked inthe usual manner.

B represents the Johnson tram-rail usually employed in street-railwaysThe crossing is constructed of the following parts:

1 represents tranrrails placed within the T'- rails A A. They are unitedto guard-rails 2 by means of knees or angle-braces 3, one arm of whichangle is connected to the guard-rail 2 by means of bolts 4 and the otherarm to the tram-rail1 by means of bolts 5. Thus the four corners of therails 1 and 2 are connected in this manner and placed within the rails AA and spiked to the ties.

In order to carry the wheels of the streetcar over the T-rails,we haveprovided the following instrumentalities:

6 represents a supplemental inclined rail, made of the form shown inFig. 5. It is bolted onto the tram-rail 1,its end abuttingthe guardrail2, in the manner shown in Fig. 3. This raises the wheel and its flangeso thatit passes over the rail 2, and thence onto the rail A, ridingover the same.

In order to prevent a jump, we provide a similar descent or inclinedsubrail, 7, upon the opposite side. i

In order that the rails B outside of the rails A may be laid withoutdisturbing said rails, and to secure a perfect crossing, we provide theoutside abutting rail,O, the flange of which at 8 is upset or groovedout, so as to rest upon the flange of rail A and to allow the head ofrail 0 to abut against the rail A, thereby making a firm support. Therails B are secured to the abutting rail 0 by knees or angle-braces 3and bolts 4 and 5, as before explained for uniting the tram-rails 1 tothe guard-rail 2. By this means the rails B may be laid withoutdisturbing or cutting the rails A, for the ordinary street-cars willride over the rails 2 O A without detriment to the car or liability ofits running off the track. The head ofthe rails A, however, may becreased, if desired, to form a groove, as indicated in lincil, Fig. 1;but ordinarily this precaution will nofib'emeo essary.

Fig. 6 of the drawings shows a modification when the ordinary flattram-rail is used. 1) represents the ordinary flat tram-rail, and E Fthe angle-brace for uniting this flat rail to the ordinary Trail. Thearm E is bolted onto the under side of the tram-rail D, and it is bentdown with the arm F bolted to the flange, the same as before describedfor the ordinary angle-brace. The sub-incline 7 is bolted to thetram-rail in the same manner as shown in Fig. 3.

Having described our invention, what we claim 'as new is 1. The combinedtram'rails 1 and Trails 2, the former having supplemental inclinedportions to carry the wheels over the latter without cutting thesame,substantially as described.

2. In combination with the rails l and 2, secured by braces 3 and bolts4. 5, the sub-rail 6, bolted to the top of rails 1, substantially asspecified.

3. The combination of the abutting rail 0 with the rails B B, securedtogether by braces 3 and bolts 4 5, to form the continuation of a whicharehigher and continuous, substantially crossing over the rails A,substantially as as specified.

specified. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set i 5 4. Incombination with the rails B and the our hands.

abutting rail 0, secured together, the inclined sub-rail 7, secured torails B, substantially as specified.

J. FOSTER OROWELL. FREDRIO O. \VEIR. Witnesses as to Fred. 0. Weir:

5. In combination with a railway-crossing having the heads of the twolines of rails A B at a difierent plane, the sub-rail bolted to the topof the lower rails, B, forming an incline to form a crossing over theother set of rails, A,

E. E. WARD, F. O. GAYMON.

\Vitnesses as to J. Foster Orowell:

ROBERT ZAHNER, M. E. MILLIKAN.

